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September 24, 2025

Cycles of Censorship in a Nation of Speech

Debates about Charlie Kirk’s work and legacy inevitably involve the issue of free speech. Both supporters and opponents of Kirk would probably agree that he devoted his life to bringing conservative ideas into institutions that had been relatively isolated from or hostile to such ideas. Continue Reading...
September 18, 2025

Subsidiarity, Not Supranationalism

There is a deeply misguided belief that the road to justice lies in the consolidation of authority into ever-larger international institutions, particularly in the post-Christian landscape of global governance and political power. Continue Reading...
September 17, 2025

Assisted Dying in the UK: Let’s Win the Argument on Principle

The House of Lords, with its resplendent red leather benches, a throne for the monarch at the state opening of Parliament, a rather uncomfortable-looking cushion seat (known as “the Woolsack”) from which the Speaker of the House presides over proceedings, and a host of history, architecture, and traditions, is a unique feature of the British constitution. Continue Reading...
September 16, 2025

Rutger Bregman’s Vision: Moral Ambition Without Imagination

We’ve all read about ideologues who had a centralized plan to save the world. Well add one more to the list. Trending right now is a man named Rutger Bregman. He is passionate, eloquent, and articulate—and he seeks to rapidly transform our country (and, indeed, the entire world) into a socialist utopia. Continue Reading...
September 11, 2025

The Murder of Charlie Kirk

As has become well-known by now, on Wednesday conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, 31, was murdered during the fall kickoff of “The American Comeback Tour” held on the campus of Utah Valley University. Continue Reading...
September 10, 2025

Whose Body? Whose Self?

In Dorothy Sayers’s 1923 whodunit, Whose Body?, an unidentified dead body, naked but for a pince-nez, is mysteriously dropped off in the bathtub of a perfectly ordinary, respectable home. Who is Mr. Continue Reading...